Talks and Events

Chasing the Elusive Blazar with STACEE

Corbin Covault (CWRU)

STACEE is an experiment to detect gamma-rays from astrophysical
sources in the range around 50 to 300 GeV. This is a very interesting
range for observing blazars since this the the range where the
instrinsic inverse-Compton spectra are expected to cut off at the
source AND it is also the range where absorption due to intergalactic
diffuse optical and UV light from galaxies is expected to attenuate
the spectra for sources in the Z range from 0.1 to about 1.0. Both of
these phenomena are very interesting and several measurements of
different blazar-type AGN will be required ultimately to disentangle
these two effects.